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In Boston, it houses more than 500 companies, many of them startups, and provides employees at those companies with office space, typical office amenities like copiers, conference rooms and fast Internet, call-forwarding services and access to a network of mentors, venture capitalists and fellow startup owners.

Oh, and the perks: fully-stocked kitchens, a bike-share program, yoga classes, shower rooms. Soon Baltimore will be the home of another Cambridge Innovation Center location.

No exact word on a launch date, but according to a job posting on StartUpHire.com, the CIC “has identified a location in Baltimore to build an innovation center based on the CIC Cambridge model.” It’s now in the process of hiring a general manager for the Baltimore space, a person who will be responsible for assembling a team of five to eight people to administer and oversee the space.

Watch a video about the Cambridge Innovation Center:

(Update: if the job listing expires, you can see a portion of it here.)

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Andrew Zaleski is a freelance journalist in Philadelphia and the former lead reporter for Technical.ly Baltimore. Before moving to Philadelphia in June 2014, he was a contributing writer to Baltimore City Paper and a Tech Check commentator for WYPR 88.1 FM, Baltimore city’s National Public Radio affiliate. He has written for The Atlantic, Outside, Richmond magazine, Washington City Paper, Baltimore magazine, Baltimore Style magazine, Next City, Grist.org, The Atlantic Cities, and elsewhere.